The Second Dionysian Text in Manuscript ‘Vat. Sir. 123’

The Second Dionysian Text in Manuscript ‘Vat. Sir. 123’Studia PatristicaSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/4VW8GC44/tei

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.MichaelMuthreichThe Second Dionysian Text in Manuscript ‘Vat. Sir. 123’http://syriaca.org/cbss/4VW8GC44https://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/4VW8GC44https://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/4VW8GC44Studia Patristica1022021247-258In an old Syriac manuscript from the Vatican Library (Vat. Sir. 123) we find a fragment resp. a short text which Assemani, in his catalogue of Syriac manuscripts in the Vatican Library, calls ‘De Sacerdotio’, immediately following on the ‘Epistola ad s. Timotheum de passione apostolorum Petri et Pauli’ (CPG 6631)2 and both texts are ascribed to S. Dionysius. Gribomont in his otherwise well-grounded article on this manuscript, strangely enough, ignores this little text. ‘De Sacerdotio’ is actually an excerpt of the eighth letter to Demophilos (CPG 6611)3 belonging to the Corpus Dionysiacum. Comparing the excerpt ‘De Sacerdotio’ to Syriac translations of the letter to Demophilos, it can be assumed that its translation goes back to Sergius of Reshaina, the first translator of the Corpus Dionysiacum into Syriac. It closely corresponds to the fragment of letter VIII given in manuscript Sinaiticus Syriacus 52 (S1) usually seen as the translation of Sergius. In this article I will show the main features of the manuscript and give a short description of the excerpt from letter VIII to Demophilos in the Vatican manuscript (Vat. Sir. 123) including text and translation. Muthreich, Michael. “The Second Dionysian Text in Manuscript ‘Vat. Sir. 123.’” Studia Patristica 102 (2021): 247–58. Michael Muthreich, The Second Dionysian Text in Manuscript ‘Vat. Sir. 123,’ Studia Patristica 102 (2021): 247–58.Greek FathersPseudo-Dionysius the AreopagiteSergius of ReshainaVI CEiV-VII CEletterspriesthoodprimary sources [Syriac] + English translationtranslations from Greektranslations into Syriac